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Next he cleansed the pipe with the tamper wrapped with buffalo 

 wool. He inserted the stem, pointed the stem toward the earth, 

 and passed each hand twice down the stem, touching the ground 

 with the hand each time. He touched his finger to the ground, 

 took a bite of root, and spat upon the hands of the Lodge-maker 

 five times, as before, whereupon the Lodge-maker grasped the pipe 

 held by the Chief Priest and four times simulated receiving the 

 pipe, taking it from him the fifth time. He applied his lips to the 

 empty pipe four times and deposited it in front of him on the cleared 

 space. The Chief Priest then took up the pipe and filled it without 

 ceremony, tamping the tobacco down with the plain tamper, and 

 put the pipe back in its place. 



Filling the Sacred Pipe. 



After a few moments' pause the Chief Priest touched his finger 

 to the ground, took a bite of root, and spat five times in the hands 

 of the assistant Chief Priest. The latter now reversed the pipe so 

 that the stem pointed toward the west (heretofore it had been 

 pointed toward the east), and placed it in front of the sacred bundle, 

 hitherto lying west of the pipe, and which had been brought into 

 the lodge by Little-Hawk, the Lodge-maker, while the priests were 

 assembling.* The assistant Chief Priest carefully took up the 

 bundle, opened it, and took from it a buffalo chip, a piece of sinew, 

 and some braided sweet- 

 grass. Next he carefully 

 removed a pipe with 

 straight black stone bowl 

 and round stem. (See Fig. 

 15.) He made five passes 

 with the pipe toward the 

 ground and laid it down 

 just behind the bundle. 

 He tied up the bundle and 

 passed it to the Chief 

 Priest, who deposited it in 

 front of Big-Baby. The 

 assistant Chief Priest took yig. 15. Sacred pipe, 



the piece of sinew which 



had been removed from the bundle and tore from it five shreds or fibers. 

 Big-Baby prepared the hands of the Lodge-maker after the usual 



*The owner of the bundle is Red-Bead, a chief, 

 bundle. 



His wife is the keeper or guardian of the 



